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Neurologist Sacks To Talk On Creativity

May 23, 1999|By A digest of coming events, compiled by Joan Giangrasse Kates.

GLEN ELLYN — Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist who inspired the Robin Williams film "Awakenings," will speak on "Creativity and the Brain" at College of DuPage.

His lecture will focus on the "consideration of the elusive act of creativity."

Sacks is the author of numerous articles and books, including the 1973 book "Awakenings" and the 1985 best seller "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat."

Sacks first encountered survivors of the sleeping epidemic of the 1920s in 1966. With his administration of the drug L-dopa, which was new at that time, he witnessed patients, benumbed for decades, awaken with "an explosive quality as corks released from a great depth."